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by fayten 851 days ago
I also found Superset unintuitive to use and setup as well. I settled on standing up Metabase because it was so simple to get started with trying it since it can be launched as a single jar. The business users loved it and so did I and administration with a Postgres backend instead of the internal h2 database was a breeze.
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datadrivenangel 851 days ago
Metabase is great. It truly is a BI tool. Superset is more of a visualization platform, which works great if you have engineers building reports. Less good if you expect more junior analysts to be super productive.
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sumoboy 851 days ago
We ran into the same exact issue with Superset not being intuitive, just for a different audience that is more technical. Also went with Metabase which is good, easy to use, lacks some a few chart types but overall the past year has seen quite a few changes and bug fixes consistently happening.
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hodgesrm 850 days ago
My experience with Superset was the opposite. It's easy to install using containers. You can have it up and running and connected to ClickHouse in a few minutes. I also found the internal design pretty intuitive--the SQL query lab is much easier than Grafana's editor.

I like Grafana too, but there's basically no isolation between your query and the SQL database at least in the Altinity Grafana plugin for ClickHouse which is the main one I use.

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xtracto 850 days ago
I had the same experience. Featurewise Superset looked better, but after wasting a couple of hours trying to install it, I just gave up.

Instead I installed Metabase in 5 minutes tops: spin ec2 instance, whether and java -jar . I've never looked back.

The only thing that turns me off I'd that it's implemented in an obscure language. At one time I wanted to add some custom postprocessing to an api (given an sql query, get some python/pandas postproc command from a sql comment and execute it in the returned table), but the used language is just not for me (some lisp dialect)

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NoThisIsMe 850 days ago
Clojure is not particularly obscure
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fuzztester 850 days ago
I just took a look at Metabase.

https://www.metabase.com/demo

Demo is nice.

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c0brac0bra 850 days ago
Yep, we've really liked Metabase for embedding in our platform.
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